Month: October 2015

Books Received September 2015

Harvesting the Sea: The Exploitation of Maritime Resources in the Roman Mediterranean. Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy

Annalisa Marzano  / Oxford University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Geoffrey Kron, 

The Possibility of Inquiry: Meno’s Paradox from Socrates to Sextus

Gail Fine  / Oxford University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Peter Aronoff, 

Solinus: New Studies

Kai Brodersen  / Verlag Antike, 2014

Reviewed by Christopher Michael McDonough, 

C. Sallusti Crispi Historiae I: fragmenta 1.1-146. Texte und Kommentare, Bd 51

Antonio La Penna, Rodolfo Funari  / De Gruyter, 2015

Reviewed by Jennifer Gerrish, 

Late Sophocles: The Hero’s Evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus

Thomas Van Nortwick  / University of Michigan Press, 2015

Reviewed by N J. Sewell-Rutter, 

Pline l’ancien: Histoire naturelle, livre IV. Collection des universités de France. Série latine, 409

Hubert Zehnacker, Alain Silberman  / Les Belles Lettres, 2015

Reviewed by Tyler T. Travillian, 

La escena típica de la ‘epipólesis’: De la épica a la historiografía. Quaderni dei Seminari romani di cultura greca 17

David Carmona  / Edizioni Quasar, 2014

Reviewed by John Jacobs, 

Owning the Past: Why the English Collected Antique Sculpture, 1640-1840

Ruth Guilding  / Yale University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Hans Christian Hönes, 

Divine Men and Women in the History and Society of Late Hellenism. Byzantina et Slavica Cracoviensia, 7

Maria Dzielska, Kamilla Twardowska  / Jagiellonian University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Todd C. Krulak, 

The Byzantine Republic. People and Power in New Rome

Anthony Kaldellis  / Harvard University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Mark Whittow, 

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, The Nicholson Museum, The University of Sydney. Red Figure and Over-Painted Pottery of South Italy, Australia fascicule 2

Michael Turner, Alexander Cambitoglou  / The Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney, and The Australian Archaeological Institute of Athens, 2014

Reviewed by Tyler Jo Smith, 

Greek Federal States and Their Sanctuaries

Peter Funke, Matthias Haake  / Frank Steiner Verlag, 2013

Reviewed by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, 

Darius in the Shadow of Alexander (translated by Jane Marie Todd; first published in French 2003)

Pierre Briant  / Harvard University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Jennifer Finn, 

Öffentlichkeit – Monument – Text: XIV Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae, 27. – 31. Augusti MMXII – Akten. Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum. Auctarium, series nova, 4

Werner Eck, Peter Funke  / De Gruyter, 2014

Reviewed by Florian Matei-Popescu, 

Sanitation, Latrines and Intestinal Parasites in Past Populations

Piers D. Mitchell  / Ashgate, 2015

Reviewed by Cornelis van Tilburg, 

Cretan Cities: Formation and Transformation. Aegis, 7

Florence Gaignerot-Driessen, Jan Driessen  / Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2015

Reviewed by Vyron Antoniadis, 

Porphyry in Fragments: Reception of an Anti-Christian Text in Late Antiquity. Ashgate studies in philosophy and theology in late antiquity

Ariane Magny  / Ashgate, 2014

Reviewed by John Granger Cook, 

Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World. The ancient world: comparative histories

Kurt A. Raaflaub  / Wiley Blackwell, 2014

Reviewed by Antonio Gonzales, 

Classical Literature in Medieval Irish Narrative. Studies in Celtic History, 34

Ralph O'Connor  / D. S. Brewer, 2014

Reviewed by Richard P. Martin,